Over four years into recovery from a decade-long opioid addiction, Ryan Hampton has been rocketed to the center of America’s rising addiction recovery advocacy movement. A former White House staffer, he has worked with multiple non-profits and national recovery advocacy campaigns. He is now a prominent, leading face and voice of addiction recovery and is changing the national conversation about addiction.

With content that reaches over 1 million people a week, Ryan is breaking down cultural barriers that have kept people suffering in silence and is inspiring a new generation of people recovering out loud through his Voices Project. He’s also advocating for solutions and holding public policy makers accountable.

He was part of the core team that released the first-ever U.S. Surgeon General’s report on addiction in 2016 and was singled out by Forbes as a top social entrepreneur in the recovery movement. Ryan connects a vast network of people who are passionate about ending the drug epidemic in America. He has been featured by—and is a contributor to—media outlets such as USA Today, MSNBC, Fox and Friends, the New York Times, NPR, HLN, Vice, Forbes, Slate, HuffPost, The Hill, the Wall Street Journal, and others.

A former aide to President Bill Clinton, Ryan has received praise from Democrats and Republicans alike for addressing addiction as a trans-political issue—crossing the political spectrum to build an inclusive coalition focused on solutions. He worked closely with the Trump White House, Senate Democrats, Republicans and U.S. House leadership in crafting portions of the historic H.R. 6, SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, signed into law by the President in October 2018. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has lauded that “Ryan’s story gives government leaders on both sides of the aisle smart commonsense solutions to consider.”

On October 22, 2018, Ryan announced Recovery Voices Vote, an initiative he’s leading to register and engage new recovery oriented voters in all 50 states. In 2016, he created the web series Addiction Across America, documenting his 30-day, 28 state, 8,000-mile cross-country trip visiting areas hit hardest by the addiction crisis.

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https://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/image1.jpeg12602400New York Times Editorial Boardhttps://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ryan_Hampton_600.pngNew York Times Editorial Board2019-09-11 17:35:082019-09-11 17:35:08The Voices Project Partners With Google To End Addiction in America

https://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_3516.jpg7641024New York Times Editorial Boardhttps://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ryan_Hampton_600.pngNew York Times Editorial Board2019-08-31 08:40:572019-08-31 08:41:16Opinion: Big Pharma Is Starting to Pay for the Opioid Crisis. Make Those Payments Count.

https://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/photo_2.png.jpg457488Maggie Urban-Waalahttps://ryanhampton.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ryan_Hampton_600.pngMaggie Urban-Waala2019-01-24 12:44:552019-01-24 12:44:55Our Family Was Rocked By Addiction. But We Are Sticking Together Through It.

We honor #NationalSoberDay here in #RecoveryMonth for all of those grappling with substance use disorder. While not everyone that uses #opioids experiences the effects of #addiction, those that do need our understanding, our support and better tools to sustain sobriety. Onward!

@hanleyfndn is honored to be a part of @Google's 'Recover with Google' campaign for #RecoveryMonth. Google w/ @YngPplRecover & @RyanForRecovery's #VoicesProject created resources to find support for those seeking recovery at a local level. #RecoverTogether

Stop what you’re doing & take a moment to go to https://t.co/tO6eSdwwfu. You don’t want to miss this! #Recovery has taken over the search bar for next 24 hrs. Together we’re all normalizing recovery—one voice, one story, one community at a time. @RyanForRecovery #thevoicesproject

23 million Americans are in long-term recovery. To help those along their journeys this National Recovery Month, we're sharing resources and personal stories to remind us that together, recovery is possible → https://t.co/NQtg8ysKuS #RecoveryMovement

Recovery from addiction is real. Thanks to @google for lifting up the voices of the 23 million Americans who prove that every day. Together, we're normalizing the recovery experience--one voice, one story, one community at a time. Let's keep pushing it mainstream. #RecoveryMonth

Today, hundreds of millions who search on @google will be directed to a new initiative that #VoicesProject has been helping to develop called Recover Together. Stop what you’re doing & take a moment to go to https://t.co/wSjG5i2lW1—see it with your own 2 eyes. #RecoveryMovement

JUST IN: Statement from AG Josh Kaul (@WisDOJ) regarding reports that Purdue Pharma has reached a settlement in a multi-state lawsuit alleging the company purposely misled the public about Oxycontin's addiction potential. For now, Wisconsin will not be a party to this settlement.

Mind blown. We’re letting them off the hook is what I’m reading between the lines here. They’ll pay for the damage as long as they can continue to sell OxyContin to make it happen, and give “rescue drugs” away that they don’t even own.